Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I was super excited about receiving the 2nd Gen Echo Show today. But, after spending a few hours with it, I’m not that impressed. I’ll start off by saying the sound quality and output is amazing, other than that, I’m struggling to find a good use for it. I’ll give a full rundown below: Backstory: This is my first “screened” echo product. Originally, I was thinking this would have similar features to an android tablet. I wanted to use it in the kitchen and run some of my cooking/recipe “apps” on it. I somehow missed the memo that the Show is essentially an echo dot with a screen, and you can only choose from the limited “Amazon Skills” selection from the Alexa app using voice control. *In full disclosure and “TMI”, I’m on a strict low-carb/ sugar-free diet - the native recipe skill is almost useless for me...* I know, I know, you can watch prime and other videos on it, but I have no idea why you would want to watch something on a 10” tabletop screen when your TV is 10x bigger, or on a tablet that's 50x thinner... There is almost zero personalization available and everything seems to be locked down. Heck, I can’t even select items or information (like 5-day weather, news, calendar) to display on the home screen. Unless I’m missing something here, looks like the whole operating system literally just runs off the voice-controlled “skills”. Out of curiosity, I went ahead and ordered the Fire HD 10” tablet with “Show Dock”, and I'm glad I did... With the Fire Tablet, I'm able to run the apps I like and it's completely mobile. I don't have the sound quality that the Show had, but this can easily be fixed with a nice Bluetooth speaker.